Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.384
EAN: 9780060555597
ISBN: 0060555599
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: May 10, 2005
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Sales Rank: 53812
Studio: Harper Perennial

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about the secret undersea lives of lobsters.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.




Rating: - Pass the Butter
I heard about this book on NPR, was interested, and promptly forgot about it for about a year before finding it on a random bookseller's table. I could not have been more pleased with Corson's book and have recommended it profusely. He weaves together two strands of lobster fandom: scientists attempting to figure out how lobsters tick and a small lobstering village in Maine more concerned with the economy of the lobster. Skillfully alternating between them, readers get a more comprehensive view ... Read More

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Rating: - Surprisingly Interesting
The author has quite a way of making what you would expect to be a pretty dry subject utterly fascinating. I couldn't put the book down during the lobster sex part. I can't wait to read something else from the author.

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Rating: - Just a common couple
We are not lovers of lobsters to eat or science wise, they are ok but not an absolute favorite to eat. However, in July we met the authors Mom at Seawall on Acadia National Park in Maine. She told us about her sons book, she was a good salesperson. We are reading it together for a hubby/wife time together - and we are surprised how it is so well written, very interesting for a subject that I wondered if I would even finish two chapters of, but it is engrossing even for those with a medium interest ... Read More

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Rating: - Dad loved it!
My father saw a review of this book and asked for it. He loved it! He's in a nursing home and tells everyone who visits him about this great book and how fascinating it is - he had me buy more to send as gifts to friends and relatives.

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Rating: - A GREAT book about noble creatures of the deep
This book is fantastic; a great read, very informative and a real page-turner. Total E-Z read too. Recommend it in hardcover; you'll want to keep it on your bookshelf forever.

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